FireFox

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“Hi I’m a security researcher” or “Hi I’m a bad reporter”

I don’t know if I should laugh or cry. The Register this morning screamed the headline “IE bug leaks private details from 50m PDF files”. Bad Microsoft! Naughty Microsoft! Errr no, bollocks really. The information leak in question comes from the fact that IE puts a footer in documents which have the URL the document was from. if you’ve loaded an HTML file from a local directory on your machine, or a network path then that URL is used in the footer. I can’t make up my mind if the problem...

posted @ Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:49 AM | Feedback (3)

Detecting information card support; and breaking Firefox

Over the last few days I’ve been working what is basically a demonstration and debugging page for the SharpSTS site to allow people to dynamically build an Information Card object tag, then submit a card to it and see the results. It was problematic to say the least, with a major part of the problem being there is no real documentation about how the object tag is supposed to expose itself to a scripting environment. In order to detect information card support without Firefox bringing up its additional plugin required information bar you cannot embedded an information card object tag...

posted @ Saturday, March 29, 2008 9:32 AM | Feedback (2)